Ecolinguistic Constructions of Environmental Vulnerability: Discourses of Rohingya Refugees in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh

In the literature reviewed so far, environmental research on the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar is mainly biophysical. In contrast, discourse research on refugees has mostly focused on press coverage. Therefore, how humanitarian institutions and Rohingya speakers construct environmental vulnerability in language has not been examined. This gap is important because humanitarian language gives agency, assigns responsibility, and justifies intervention. This paper presents the review protocol and analytical design for an ecolinguistic study. The study compares institutional texts with community narratives along Stibbe’s beneficial–ambivalent–destructive continuum, with support from corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis. It specifies inclusion and exclusion criteria, a dual-screener protocol reported against PRISMA 2020, a multi-database search of English and Bangla sources published from 2000 to 2026, and a four-stage synthesis procedure. A preliminary mapping of the literature shows a strong biophysical evidence base and a mature ecolinguistic toolkit. However, no study identified so far applies an ecolinguistic evaluative framework to this population, and Rohingya ecological vocabulary and metaphor are largely absent from published linguistic analysis. The design aims to provide recommendations for environmentally just humanitarian communication and eco-critical pedagogy.